Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh
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History
Points of Interest
The downtown area, known as the Golden Triangle, includes Gateway Center, a landscaped hub of office and hotel space. Pittsburgh is the seat of Carlow Univ., Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Chatham Univ, Duquesne Univ., and the Univ. of Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts and neighboring theaters, the Carnegie Institute's art and natural history museums, the Carnegie Library, the Andy Warhol Museum, and the Senator John Heinz History Center are noteworthy. On the Univ. of Pittsburgh campus is a memorial hall dedicated to Stephen Foster, who was born (1826) in Lawrenceville, now part of the city.
Pittsburgh has a fine park system, of which Schenley Park is the principal unit. The blockhouse of old Fort Pitt is preserved in Point State Park. Two botanical conservatories, the Buhl Science Center, a planetarium, a civic arena (with a retractable dome), an aviary, the Flag Plaza, and the Pittsburgh Zoo are among the city's other features. Pittsburgh is home to the Pirates (National League baseball), Steelers (National Football League), and Penguins (National Hockey League). A casino opened in the city in 2009.
Bibliography
See R. Lubove, Twentieth Century Pittsburgh (1969); J. D. Van Trump, Life and Architecture in Pittsburgh (1985).
Pittsburgh
a city in the northeastern USA, in Pennsylvania. Port at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, which form the Ohio River. Population, 520,000 (1970; 2,400,000 including suburbs).
Pittsburgh is one of the largest industrial centers in the USA, with 31 percent of the working population employed in industry. In 1971 manufacturing industries employed 261,000 people in the city and its suburbs, and coal mining employed 9,000. Heavy industry predominates, employing more than two-thirds of the working population. The chief branch is ferrous metallurgy. Diverse forms of metalworking are connected with it, as is the production of coke, refractory materials, and construction materials. Other industries include the manufacture of heavy and transport machinery, industrial and road-building machines, and electrical and radioelectronic equipment. The city also has chemical enterprises, factories for the production of glass and ceramics, and food-processing plants. Coal is mined nearby. Pittsburgh is an important commercial center and transportation junction on the routes from the Atlantic coast to the central regions of the US. The city has three universities and the Carnegie Institute of Technology (since 1967 part of Carnegie-Mellon University). Other important cultural institutions are the Carnegie Institute Museum of Art and the Buhl Planetarium. Pittsburgh was founded in the mid-18th century.